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The kappa statistic is a chance corrected measure of agreement, that is the calculation of the statistic takes into account the marginal distributions.
Simple Kappa statistics (κ) was calculated to validate the treatment information from the insurance claims and the HTR [ 26 27 ] . BCS was used as reference group throughout the analysis.
The father motored through Yale in two and a half years, earning a Phi Beta Kappa key along the way.
Several observations support the assertion that a complex interaction between IL-8 and several other growth factors, cytokines, or other proteins is responsible for these tumor-related events [ 5 9 10 11 12 13 ] . Growth regulated protein alpha (GRO-α), beta (GRO-β), and ENA-78 have been reported to be co-induced with IL-8 in A549 cells stimulated with two proinflammatory cytokines, IL-1β and TNF-α [ 14 ] . This result is consistent with the presence of nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) consensus binding sites in the promoter regions of all three genes [ 4 15 ] . In addition, GRO-α and -β are also members of the ELR +CXC cytokine family that are reported to be important mediators of tumorigenesis through their angiogenic properties [ 2 16 ] . They both share one of the IL-8 receptors, CXCR2, which has been postulated to regulate the ELR +CXC chemokine-mediated angiogenesis and resulting-tumorigenesis [ 1 ] . These observations suggest that GRO-α and -β may exhibit expression profiles similar to IL-8.
This ordinal transformation was performed in order to calculate the kappa statistic.
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